Also known as ScriptNo, ScriptSafe is for advanced users only. It works in a similar way to Ghostery, but it much less exclusive. It means you’ll be alerted to almost every script on a website, and disabling them all will make lots of sites fail to load.

On the flipside, it’s easy-to-use interface will guide you, making sure you only load the scripts that are needed for the content you want to see.

Entertainment

Whether you want to supercharge YouTube, listen to music, or find engaging content to read, we’ve got you covered with these entertainment-based apps.

Spoiler Protection

If you spend a lot of time on sites like Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook, it’s extremely difficult to avoid spoilers for popular TV shows and films. It’s even worse for sports games; you never know when someone might innocently mention the results.

Spoiler Protection covers up any mention of the shows you don’t want to hear about. All the filters are fully customizable.

Sometimes you get to the end of an article you’re reading, or have exhausted all the new content on one of your favorite sites, and you wish there was more. This extension helps you discover web pages similar to the page you’re currently browsing – perfect for both research and casual browsing.

StumbleUpon [No Longer Available]

A click on the StumbleUpon extension will either take you to a random page or a specific page within your field of interests. You can define your interests to help the app find content you will enjoy.

Image-Toolbar will display a toolbar over any image you find on the web. The toolbar will let you download the image to a location of your choosing. You can also program some of its other buttons, letting you perform tasks such as opening an image in a new tab and bringing an image to the front of a page.

Send from Gmail is an official Google extension, but it’s frequently overlooked.

The extension places in icon in the top-right hand corner of Chrome which, when clicked, instantly opens a floating “New Email” window. It’s the best way to quickly send emails on-the-fly without disrupting your workflow.

This one is aimed primarily at students. It makes bibliography creation easier, letting you quickly create a properly formatted website citation for the APA, Chicago, MLA, and Harvard citation styles. It even allows you to maintain project bibliographies – perfect for not getting bogged down in citations whilst in a creative flow.

Do you want a lightweight and easy-to-use photo editor? iPiccy includes lots of web-based photo-editing tools such as auto-fix, rotate, crop, resize, and color adjustment — as well as some more advanced processing features.

You can read and re-read an important email a thousand times, but you can guarantee that as soon as you hit send you’ll find a typo. eAngel lets you send emails and documents to real humans who will then check it for syntax and typos.

How annoying is it when you right-click on a web page but the site prevents you from accessing the context menu? RightToCopy solves the problem, it lets you highlight text and copy text on pages that have disabled the features.

Better History

Better History replaces Chrome’s native history tool. It adds more controls to help you find your old content quickly and more effectively. You can jump between days or hours with a single click, and easily delete visits in a set time frame.

Unlike the Yahoo Currency Convertor extension, the Chrome Currency Convertor automatically changes any figures in a web page to your desired currency. It’s not only good for shopping but also reading long-form articles that quote prices and figures from around the world.

Social

These days, there are so many social media networks that it’s difficult to stay on top of them all. Download these extensions to make life a bit easier.

The extension cleans up a lot of “junk” off the web-based Reddit homepage, giving you a faster and more streamlined layout. Flatit is compatible with the Reddit Enhancement Suite (which everyone should be using).

Tab Management and Bookmarking

The Great Suspender will automatically freeze any tabs you’re not using, thus saving your computer’s RAM usage. They become “live” again as soon as you click on them. You can also retain tabs between browsing sessions.

Session Manager comes highly recommended from several of our readers. The extension allows you to save any tabs you’re working on when you shut your browser, then instantly reload all of them at a later time.

You can also create groups of tabs to open with a single click. For example, perhaps you have a group of sites you check every morning or your want to open all your favorite news sites at the same time.

TabsOutliner - Wow! Awesome!
I could not believe I never tried it before - highly recommend. It's just an answer to all my desires for a best session manager. Have some small glitches though, looks like it's not work well with the "Continue where i left off" mode (it's when Chrome reopen all previously opened tabs on restart) - not a big problem for me anyway, just disabled it. Compared to everything else that I used or tried before, and to the whole state with such tools in the Chrome Store it's just terrific.

First, there is Session Manager. I am one of those people that keep a million tabs open on a subject I am researching. Session Manager allow me to save all of the tabs as a named session. I can go back and reload all the tabs. Simple and effective. Also, the OneNote web clipper is invaluable if you use OneNote. Try them both out and you will see what I mean.

I've used many of the extensions mentioned here, and now have an interest in a few more- thank you.
Adblock Plus is one that I always have on, and don't even realize how much I love it. Out of sight, out of mind, just like most internet ads; I never see them.
iPiccy is my favorite image editor. Way beyond "basic", and any features it might (I said MIGHT) be lacking is easily balanced by no cost, no ads, no pressure to buy the premium version, no locked features, and a very user friendly interface. I use it daily.
Send From GMail by Google. Whenever I'm on a webpage and want to share it with my wife or friends, ONE click and the link is in an outgoing email ready to add a comment or send, from my GMail account, without going to, or opening my inbox.
Magic Actions for YouTube has totally changed and enhanced my YouTube experience in ways I never thought of. I used to think "Watching videos, what's the big deal?". When they are all in HD, with superior sound, ambient lighting, and many other effects, it's a whole new experience.
I have some other favorites, including some you mentioned above, but I'll leave it at that for now.

ublock- (u as in utorrent) very lightweight adblocker
flatit- makes the reddit UI much more modern and streamlined, however does not move anything. Just makes it look a bit more modern.
Auto HD for YouTube- There's a plethora of autohd extensions out there, but they all do relatively the same thing. Must have for anyone with a halfway decent internet speed.
Google Quick Scroll- You know how when you google something you see small parts of that webpage. Often after follow the link you spend ages trying to find the relevant text. Google Quick Scroll lets you jump to parts of the webpage relevant to your search.

I recomend Clearly. It transforms the content of a page by removing all the ads and formats everithing nicely. The pics remain contained in the article.
The only disadvantage for me is that you cannot cusomize the way the articla is formatted then.

Any discussion of security extensions for Chrome begins with uMatrix. While there is a learning curve the benefits far outweigh any time spent in that regard.

As other posters has stated uBlock, created by the same author of uMatrix, for Chrome has a MUCH lower memory use than the various ablock extensions while at the same time offering more choices for block lists.

I do use Https Everywhere and Last Pass.

WOT is nothing more than crowd sourced user opinions many of which have nothing to do with security or privacy. Chrome's own Phishing and Malware protection is based on more

I also use PoperBlocker, Random (hide) User Agent, Referer Control (I show the referer of the site I am visiting to also be that site) and Strong Password Generator.

Firefox is no where near Chrome in terms of security mainly because of the process sandboxing which Firefox is about a year or so from using themselves because Chromium (Chrome) is open source.

I have put google chrome on my kindle HD fire (via ES explorer), It seems to be fine apart from it won't translate foreign websites & I cannot find how to turn this feature on, Would anyone be able to help?
Thanks.

Although not having a direct ability to save pages or detailed page fragments, it's effectively solve the problem of putting pages for reading latter or just save tabs links with some short notes of why you do so or what useful there was.

CHROME Is Now My Second Browser, Because GOOGLE Forgot Power Users Have A Choice.

Besides The Default CHROME - Forcing Normal Users Not To Be Able To Use Extensions Outside The CHROME Web Store - There Should Be Another Way For Power Users To Continue To Use Them ( Still Allowed In OPERA - Knock On Wood ).

OneTab is another great extension. I have a horrible habit of leaving WAY too many tabs open. This extension lets me remove tabs from system memory into ONE very easy to organize tab. Not only can I group tabs together, but also, move and organize them. I can also name the groups. So if I'm working on a project, I can open all the tabs related to it all at once and then OneTab them all once I'm done.

For adblocking (and privacy) I can recommend µblock, which claims to use fewer resources than other adblockers.
To quickly share links with your smartphone (e.g. you're reading an article and have to leave and want to continue reading on your phone) I have been using QR Code generator for ages.

You've suggested the wrong Ad-blocking tool. Adblock Plus has a much larger feature set for much more comprehensive protection.

I'd go farther and suggest that you're recommending the wrong browser. Chrome's add-on ecosystem remains a distant second in terms of functionality to the expansive options available to Firefox, especially with regard to privacy and security.

Some other extentions I use a lot are:
- searchbar: it's a very efficient way to acces search engines
- magic actions for youtube: gives a lot of options to youtube
- hover zoom: enlarges images
- home - new tab page:

You forgot Zenmate for surfing anonimously....
Also Data Compression Proxy if you have a very weak internet connecion or an small speed connection.
Mailtrack for gmail (it announces you when your email was read).
Youtube Automatic Quality changer

Grammarly- it automatically checks all writing you do within chrome and is very useful
Diigo- allows you to save sites within your own library
Streak- Email tracker, allows you to see who opened your email, when it was opened, what device and OS they were using, and their geographical location down to the neighborhood area.

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